Posts Tagged Brooklyn YR
Activism Across Brooklyn
Posted by Roy Antoun in Culture, Democrats, Libertarian, Politics, Republicans on June 25, 2010
Brooklyn has been receiving a heavy dose of Liberty and Reform these past few weeks. Brooklyn YR President and Republican activist Jonathan Judge and I have battled vigorously to promote small, limited government. About a week ago, we hit Bensonhurst with petitioning for State Assembly Candidate Lucretia Regina-Potter, meeting neighbors and disgruntled citizens who simply wanted their tax dollars back in their own wallets.
While the Brooklyn GOP establishment continues to undermine true tenets of reform and liberty, the activists have stormed the field. After one week of activist door-to-door visits, I distributed over 120 copies of Young American Revolution and spoke to dozens of neighbors about the need for Republican reform back to its Constitutional roots. We’re fighting for small government and that began here at home.
“Politicians” have stolen the fruits of our labor and distributed it amongst themselves and their friends on Wall Street. Distributing tax according to what an economic czar or Congressman deems “important” is nothing more than glorified corporatism. Why hasn’t Albany given our tax dollars back if they truly wanted to stimulate economic growth? After all, it is spending and saving in the private sector that moves an economy.
We need to be careful as to who is running our government, who we allow to run in politics, who runs the party. If the establishment is ok with endorsing liberal Mayors like Michael Bloomberg then we, the people, must keep them in check. That is how a Republic works.
Brooklyn Young Republican Revolution
Posted by Roy Antoun in Culture, Democrats, Economics, Libertarian, Politics, Republicans on June 7, 2010
There is a deep rift in the Brooklyn Republican Party, in case you haven’t noticed from my previous posts. Back in September 2009, I was elected County Committeeman in my district under high political pressure. After my primary (of which I won by plurality of the vote), the party crack deepened and worsened. The County Convention was essentially between an old neoconservative who hoarded money (the incumbent), and a reformer who wanted to change the way the party runs. Needless to say, my proxy went to the reformer but the Brooklyn GOP establishment decided to run hate blogs against the more liberatian-minded people in the party. And so, the Brooklyn GOP split between libertarian minded youth (Brooklyn Young Republicans), and the GOP Establishment. Day-in and day-out, I have been working vehemently with many of the little rebels in the party system to help bring real change to conservatism in New York. Below is a video encapuslating the movement here in Brooklyn.
FROM DC TO NEW YORK, THE TEA PARTY’S CORE MESSAGE SPREADS
Posted by Roy Antoun in Economics, Libertarian, Politics, Republicans on April 16, 2010
In sheer anger at the neoconservative elders suffocating the political climate in Brooklyn, NY, the borough’s Brooklyn Young Republicans have released this video and commentary expressing the need for youth to change politics and bring liberty back to the Republican Party and beyond. Even more, a local popular blog, “Atlas Shrugs in Brooklyn,” recently highlighted Ron Paul‘s enormous challenge to Barack Obama in a latest poll.
As the Brooklyn Young Republicans’ Communications Chairman and a local County Committeeman, I’m helping push the revolution into the streets of New York. With Ron Paul rising ever so high in straw polls and the Tax Day Tea Parties expressing frustration with the establishment, it’s true: Liberty is indeed contagious. It’s time we put old politics aside and watered the tree liberty once again.
What can you do help spread Ron’s message?



